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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Color a Cut File with the Silhouette Cameo

New today in the Silhouette Store I found these adorable little girls that were line drawings style, cut files. I really like them and I was trying to figure out how to use them. So, I bought a few and played around a bit and I decided the best thing would be to color them in and cut them like a paper doll.

This project begins by ungrouping the girl to her smallest shapes. In order to fill the shapes you have to ungroup them first, and then to ungroup them even further. First you have to make a compound path, and then release the compound path. Object > make a compound path. Next Object > Release Compound Path. Make sure there is a bounding box around the entire design each time. This breaks down the design into the simplest shapes. Sometimes you may need to do it a couple of times to get it to release everything. When a shape is a compound shape it is completely flat, when you release the compound shape it becomes divided up into separate layers. You can then fill the separate layers with color.

Use the fill Color window, select the shape and click the color you want from the Fill Color palette. When you have a layered designs, fill the background color first and make sure that color is in the back by using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+[, now you can fill another shape on top of that one. When coloring this girl I filled black first, moved it to the back and filled the second color on top with out moving the shapes.

Here's everything all colored. I printed and cut 3 girls, 2 frames to layer them with foam tape.

After doing the layers, I add some bling and a border I welded together.

Object > modify >Weld and I cut the extra edges off with the knife tool. For the title I added glitter to a piece of chipboard.
That's it for today! I hope you enjoyed this project.

How cute!I love your blog, you have such talent. I purchased a few of the girls and was successful to a point.I am new to the cameo so I am not familiar yet with all the different things that it will do. I could not get the lines to be black, thy showed up as red. I was not sure how to change it, I will try again tomorrow.

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I have been scrapbooking since my daughter was born in 1999. But If you saw my scrapbooks back then you'd have a hard time believing I'm the same person. I've been involved in art my whole life I have my degree in interior design and I have been a designer for over 15 years. I am working at being a self taught graphic artist and I like designing all kinds of things. I come from a very artistic family, Sunday afternoons were spent with my Dad doing every type of crafts imaginable, including painting my Keds with an American flag design. I love scrapbooking and I can't imagine my life without it!